Oh! Disruptions! :(

"I think each day should start afresh, and disruptions should be dealt with one at a time,..."

How does disruption feel like? It happened when things don't get right for a start in the morning. All that you had planned for the day gets disrupted. This happened today and I felt a little "let down". Here are the unexpected.

1) Students' visit about exam - MS called in unexpectedly about topic xx I discussed in class not mentioned in the textbook and asked if that is important. This then led me to think perhaps it times to organise my revision lecture material.

2) WF and his exam papers - well, AA told me that he needed someone to read WF's exam paper, given that AA had read that 6 or 7 times and some problems still not resolved by WF. I had a look, well just some editorial problems. I really not sure what make WF not see that, despite AA's numerous attempts to remind him about. WF didn't have the problem with me when I last discussed a similar issue raised with another course we taught together

3) TRAC diary - the deadline to submit one and I quickly drafted up one, did took me sometimes to think about how i had spent my past few days in retrospect.

4) MW didn't think our housing paper is adequate - This housing paper I did with MW had been on for AGES, did some changes last time and thought it told a nice story, but MW thought it was insufficient. I could not argue anymore on this as he is more of a specialist on the housing research front. Anyway, I found out how to sort out the structural VAR from MW and knew from him that EView can work this out, so JL should be please as I should get on with this next few days.

5) Evaluation forms - Next week most of the colleagues will hand out evaluation forms to students and so am I. Well, I have two sets to send out, the white form and the blue form. Thinking that I had 230 students and need to collect from each of them did keep me thinking a bit how I should deal with it. It seems a bit tedious here and need some additional helpers, :(

Today my normal routine should be to prepare my last lecture for next week. I did had something done by the end of the day, but this could have done a lot earlier in the day which I expected, as I was hoping for some times with my research.

I think each day should start afresh, and we should be reminded what we needed to do each day, and deal with disruptions one at a time, that way, getting back to routines and getting productive should happen quite soon. I am missing the trill of doing research on JR's topic and I am looking forward to "play" with EView to get the structural VAR sorted out and hopefully to give JL soon.